London hotels

Radisson Blu Edwardian Heathrow London was my last hotel night of 20 nights in Europe last month. Our July 2017 trip included four stays at Club Carlson properties to earn two Free Friday nights with their current promotion running to Sep 30, 2017. I booked a one night AAA flexible cancellation room rate at 86.40…

Choice Hotels has five properties in London, England at 8,000 to 12,000 points per reward night for some dates in summer and fall. In addition, three more Choice hotels in the London region, Richmond-upon Thames, St. Albans and Windsor are 10,000 or 12,000 points per reward night. Paris has many hotels in the 8,000 to…

One of the reasons I chose Holiday Inn London Commercial Road were several positive hotel reviews stating the rooms were large for London at this relatively newly built hotel opened soon before the 2012 London Olympics . Over the past two years with about 15 nights in London hotels, most rooms I have stayed in…

Better write up this hotel review from last month before I find myself back in central London in September staying at a new hotel and taking new walks around a part of the city I have not stayed before. There is a story about how I ended up at Radisson Bu Edwardian Heathrow Hotel that…

Holiday Inn Bloomsbury was the third of four IHG hotels we stayed at in London during Thanksgiving week. InterContinental London Park Lane using Kelley’s Into the Nights free night certificates earned in December 2014 was our first hotel. My objective for our trip after staying two nights at IC Park Lane was three different IHG…

Thirteen and a half hours. I checked the clock again in disbelief. Sure enough, the time read 10:30am and I had been in bed sleeping for 13.5 hours at the InterContinental London Park Lane. The bed and pillows of the IC London Park Lane rank in the top five for any of the hundreds of…

The appealing aspect of The May Fair London for me is location. The hotel is centrally located near the Royal Parks of The Green Park and Hyde Park, about 15 minutes walk south to Buckingham Palace or north to Selfridge’s on Oxford Street and only about 200 yards from the Green Park Underground on the…

The childhood home of Queen Elizabeth II at 145 Piccadilly was destroyed on October 7, 1940 during the German blitz of London. A large luxury hotel was built on the site from 1968-1975 and the InterContinental London Park Lane was ceremoniously opened on September 23, 1975 by His Grace the 8th Duke of Wellington, Arthur…

Today I took the opportunity of my wife’s need to use a toilet and the proximity of the Hyatt Regency Churchill in London to take photos of the hotel. She was in the toilet a long time and I had several minutes to snap photos. Hyatt Regency Churchill London In the past year, we have…

There are currently 11 hotels in Club Carlson category 7, the new high end category introduced in March 2014 at 70,000 Club Carlson points per night. On June 1, 2015 there will be 67 more category 7 hotels at 70,000 points per night to fill the Club Carlson high end hotel tier with 78 hotels.…